Pablo Ruiz-Rudolph

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What is the rationale of having percentiles (99 or 98) as form of a Air Quality Standard?

My understanding is that we use percentiles as we do not want only to check if a short term standard was exceeded once, but that it is sistematically exceeded, meaning that the upper end of the...

25 January 2016 5,775 11 View

Does anyone know if WHO is going to produce new air quality guidelines in the near future? Is annual PM10 likely be incorporated?

EPA recently revoked the annual PM10 standard, while California has kept it. Any comments on this decisions?

19 February 2014 1,779 1 View

Are there studies of personal exposure to heat stress or temperature, like microenvironmental variations?

Is there anything besides Basu et al. 2002? There is quite a large literature of personal exposure to air pollutants and microenvironmental impacts (traffic). It has been difficult to find studies...

18 February 2014 9,941 2 View

Is there any good book to teach environmental toxicology besides Williams's Principles of Toxicology?

Book for environmental toxicology.

17 February 2014 1,297 11 View

Reason to revoke (not revoke) PM10 annual standard?

Recently EPA revoked the PM10 annual standard. California has not done so and actually they have a very strict standard. Many studies show long term effects of PM10 (usually when PM2.5...

14 February 2014 3,880 13 View

Science of Air Quality Index?

Is there any science behind the Air Quality Indexes besides cost benefit analysis? Usually when an index goes above, let's say 100 or 200, it is said it is harmful to general population. Any...

14 February 2014 3,643 2 View